Sentence examples for close escort from inspiring English sources
Close escort would be provided by Bf-109s and Bf-110s weaving in and out of the formation.
But the Luftwaffe, in one of the major miscalculations of the aerial war, usually confined its fast, deadly fighters to close escort of the bomber formations.
The German fighter pilots kept close escort.
Some 30 Jagdgeschwader 3 (JG 3) flew close escort.
On 21 May the ship joined Convoy PQ 16 as part of the close escort.
No. 603 Squadron RAF would arrive on the scene just afterward and get at the close escort (JG 3).
Stationed in fjords on the Norwegian coast, the battleship was capable of overwhelming the close-escort forces assigned to the Arctic convoys or breaking out into the North Atlantic.
Operating from fjords on the Norwegian coast, the battleship was capable of overwhelming the close-escort forces assigned to the Arctic convoys or breaking out into the North Atlantic.
She is allowed to see her husband every two or three months and otherwise is allowed out only once a month or so, to visit her mother and one of her close friends under escort.
The carriers' escorting warships were deployed as visual scouts in a ring at long range, not as close anti-aircraft escorts, as they lacked training, doctrine, and sufficient anti-aircraft guns.
(The city is spectacularly situated against a chain of steep green mountains, with a brick-centric architectural style, massive slums to the south, and a lingering air of nighttime menace that keeps festival visitors close to their escorts).
